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Husband was watching on-air attack, too

Thousands of people were watching WDBJ's live broadcast from a shopping center at a popular Virginia lake when a man shot three people. One of the viewers was the husband of the woman being interviewed.

Tim Gardner told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Thursday that he was stunned but his wife -- a Smith Mountain Lake chamber of commerce exec -- called him from an ambulance and told him she was lucky to be alive.

Vicki Gardner indeed is lucky. The bullet grazed her spine, her husband said, relating a Wednesday conversation with medics. Gardner, the only survivor, does have a lot of rehab ahead of her, her husband said.

Trump still has reason to trumpet the results of the poll -- he is well ahead of the next Republican when voters were asked for whom they would vote. The news wasn't so good for one of Trump's chief rivals.